t:
Nam mea vita meis non est incongrua scriptis;
Justitiam doceo, Justitiamque colo.
Improbus esse potest nemo qui non sit avarus,
Nec pulchrum quisquam fecit avarus opus.
Octoginta ego jam complevi et quatuor annos;
Pene acta est vitae fabula longa meae."

[379] Hobbes, in his metrical (by no means his poetical) life, says,
the more the "Leviathan" was written against, the more it was
read; and adds,

"Firmius inde stetit, spero stabitque per omne
AEvum, defensus viribus ipse suis.
Justitiae mensura, atque ambitionis elenchus,
Regum arx, pax populo, si doceatur, erit."

The term _arx_ is here peculiarly fortunate, according to the
system of the author--it means a citadel or fortified place on
an eminence, to which the people might fly for their common
safety.

His works were much read; as appears by "The Court Burlesqued,"
a satire attributed to Butler.

"So those who wear the holy robes
That rail so much at _Father Hobbs_,
Because he has exposed of late
_The nakedness of Church and State_;
Yet tho' they do his books condemn,
They love to buy and read the same."

Our author, so late as in 1750, was still so commanding a
genius, that his works were collected in a handsome folio; but
that collection is not complete. When he could not get his
works printed at home, he published them in Latin, including
his mathematical works, at Amsterdam, by Blaew, 1668, 4to. His
treatises, "De Cive," and "On Human Nature," are of perpetual
value. Gassendi recommends these admirable works, and
Puffendorff acknowledges the depth of his obligations. The
Life of Hobbes in the "Biographia Britannica," by Dr.
Campbell, is a work of curious research.

HOBBES'S QUARRELS

WITH
DR. WALLIS THE MATHEMATICIAN.

HOBBES'S passion for the study of Mathematics began late in
life--attempts to be an original discoverer--attacked by
WALLIS--various replies and rejoinders--nearly maddened by the
opposition he encountered--after four years of truce, the war
again renewed--character of HOBBES by Dr. WALLIS, a specimen of
invective and irony; serving as a remarkable instance how the
greatest genius may come down t